Manifolding receipt.



PATBNTED MAR. 24, 1908.

w. r. BLAKE & L. c. HUNTER.

MANIFOLDING RECEIPT.

APPLICATION rum) r1313 19, 1907,

Z7z/a/7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER F. BLAKE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AND LEWIS G. HUNTER, OF FORT WAYNE,

INDIANA.

MANIFOLDING RECEIPT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24. 1908.

Application filed February 18, 1907. Serial No. 357,789.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WALTER F. BLAKE and LEWIS C. HUNTER, citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of Ohicago, Illinois, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Manifolding Receipts, of which the following, taken in connection with the drawing, is a specification.

Our invention has for its object the production of a triplicate receipt by means of which three copies may be made at one writing without the use of separate carbon sheets, and is desi nod to be used more particularly by railroads and like companies where it is desirable to have at least three copies of each receipt or other document. These receipts are so folded together and bound as to form a book containing any number of receipts desired, the same being secured together, preferably at the end thereof, with an adjustable fastening, by means of which after any number of receipts have been torn out, the fasteners may be readily and easily tightened anddthe remaining receipts held in place until use Other novel features and advantages of construction will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming art of this specification, and in which like etters of reference indicate corresponding parts, we have illustrated what we now consider the preferred form of construction and inthese drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a book of triplicate receipts, ready for use; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one set of receipts after eing torn from the book, showing the copying preparation on the back of the first leaf; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail with the cover removed showing the fastening device after art of the receipts have been torn out. be-

ore adjusting to clamp the remaining receipts; Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view 0 one set of receipts illustratin one of the filing apertures and one of the slots for the fastening device.

In carryin out our invention a, a, a, indicate the trip 'cate receipts, sections a and a of said receipts being provided upon the back thereof with a coating of copyin preparation, so that as the sections are fo ded together, the copying preparation upon the back of section a reproduces the copy upon section a and the copying preparation upon the back of section a, reproduces a copy upon section a One edge of each section a and a is rovided with perforations b, bf arrange in proper position for filing after the receipts have been filled out and used, at the same ed e and upon either side of the perforations b, F are small slots 0, 0 extending longitudinally of the section of paper a, a through which the fastening devices are extended.

The fastening devices used in bindin the sheets together are preferably 3f the ind provided with a head (1 and double shank portions d which are assed through the slots 0, c and the ends tiiereof bent in opposite directions as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 to hold the different'sections together.

2 is a backing or cover having one end thereof bent around and bound with the sheets, and being of sufficient length to overlap and fold back under the first set of receipts a, a, a as shown in Fig. 1. When the user is about to make out a receipt he places the loose and e of the backing, beneath the top(set of triplicate receipts, so as to prevent any 1mpressions of the writing from appearing on any of the sheets below the first set.

After a receipt has been filled out theuser simply pulls it from its lace, the slot 0, c tearing straight to the e .ge of the paper-as shown in Fig. 2, after which the receipts are separated along the line of perforations b, b

When any number of receipts have been used and torn out the fastening devices may be readily and easily adjusted to retain the remaining sheets in position, by pressin the binding 0 down and spreading the shan sof the fastening devices. The advantages of this method will be apparent, and while we have described our device as being applied particularly to railroad receipts it is obvious at one end thereof, said binding means being that it may be used in making duplicates of adapted for tightening adjustment as the other documents. slips are torn from the book. 5 YTOZLfiYiZFlHQlllfOldlllg book comprising l WALTER BLAKE a plurality of sheets of paper each of which is LEWIS HUNTER perforated transversely and folded -to form Witnesses to signature of Blake: trl licate slips, manifold material upon one J. A. ANDERSON,

sic e of two of said slips, a cover having one H. C. PRIEBE. 10 end thereof adapted to be folded under the Witnesses as to signature of Hunter:

slips being Written upon, and means for JOHN C. HELLER,

binding the folded sheets and cover together I RosELLE M. BRAUN. 

